Stepping Out

The Community School of Music and Arts is slated to present “Gone to the Wild” – prints by artist Kathryn Kain – Friday through July 28 in CSMA’s Mohr Gallery, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View.

The exhibition will feature large-scale prints with images of fruits, flowers and ephemera, underscoring the artist’s theme of the relationship of humans to nature.

“I am especially focused on plants, local flora that I see repeatedly from season to season,” Kain said. “The seasons’ influence on human culture and rituals, plants we use and interact with, is a universal truth of humanity.”

Kain draws branches, fruits and flowers she finds locally. The rendered objects float in an atmospheric space, often including collaged images, such as birds, lacy doilies and images of women. Other drawings may focus on a single long branch or a fruit just plucked from the tree.

Kain’s work is exhibited nationally and in Mexico, including a 2009 solo exhibition, “Harvesting Myths,” at the Fresno Art Museum.

She has worked as a Master Printer at Smith Andersen Editions, a fine-art publishing studio in Palo Alto, and taught etching, lithography and monotype at Stanford University, San Jose State University, Dominican University and Santa Clara University.

Mohr Gallery is open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. A reception for the artist is slated 6-8 p.m. Friday.